Doctor Who

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I nominate Xamonas Chegwe as the new Doctor, and Trinity as his Companion. I could easily see either of them saving the universe

I can't save for the price of a cuppa!

[tattuchu]

I liked Eccleston but thought that David Tennant made a much more wonderful Doctor. As much as I loved Tennant, I think Matt Smith is even more fantastic. He's funny as hell. Amy Pond, however...despite being awfully pretty and have a cool accent, I'm still not warming up to her. She's just not terribly interesting. She's becoming a very important character in the show's storyline, so she's interesting in that respect. She's just not interesting personality-wise. Her friend Rory, who early on I'd dismissed as also boring and disposable, has actually become much more appealing.
Despite a rocky start, the episodes are getting better as they go along. Everything is coming together rather nicely.

[cronus]

I liked Eccleston but thought that David Tennant made a much more wonderful Doctor. As much as I loved Tennant, I think Matt Smith is even more fantastic. He's funny as hell. Amy Pond, however...despite being awfully pretty and have a cool accent, I'm still not warming up to her. She's just not terribly interesting. She's becoming a very important character in the show's storyline, so she's interesting in that respect. She's just not interesting personality-wise. Her friend Rory, who early on I'd dismissed as also boring and disposable, has actually become much more appealing.
Despite a rocky start, the episodes are getting better as they go along. Everything is coming together rather nicely.

Matt Smith was creepy. I'm waiting for some scandal with him in it to pop up in the press. He's got that criminal hunch-back demeanour that spells trouble.

[cronus]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... -fall.html

Doctor Who director dies after escalator fall

A former Doctor Who director has died aged 88 after falling down the escalators at his local shopping centre.
Chris Barry was rushed to hospital after his fall but suddenly stopped breathing and doctors were unable to revive him.
The veteran director was popular among the legions of Doctor Who fans, and worked on the BBC programme for 16 years, until 1979.
He was also involved with other British television greats from the '60s to the 1980s - including Z-Cars, Poldark, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, and The Tripods.
He died after falling down the escalator in a shopping centre in Banbury, Oxon., on February 7.

(continued, that's how a Dr Who director should leave the stage...taking steps bigger on the downside than the up?)

[rachelbean]

Killed by the only thing that can stop a dalek

[tattuchu]

Gives the expression "I'll go to the foot of our stairs" a whole new meaning

Anyway, I've reached the end of amazon's free streaming Doctor Who episodes There's the second half of the 7th season but they're charging for that. Gonna see if my eating friend has it on DVD. He most surely will. But then it looks like there's nothing at all available after that
So I've started watching Torchwood. It's not as good as I was hoping it would be. For a special team of elite operatives, they sure are fucking stupid and act most illogically. I do like the main character, though. Not Jack Harkness. The woman- the former police officer.

[DaveD]

Try this link: http://www.cokeandpopcorn.ch/tvsection.php
When you've decided which episode to watch, pick one of the internet options (GorillaVid works for me). Have something like Adblock running, or you'll be inundated with pop up ads.

[tattuchu]

Thanks, DaveD, but my eating friend Ron came to the rescue and lent me the DVD set. Finished now. Trying to remember what it was I did with myself before Doctor Who. Currently watching Torchwood but unsure I can suffer through too many more episodes

[tattuchu]

I thought the first season of Torchwood was rubbish, although there were a few decent episodes toward the end. Second season was quite a lot better. The writing was much better and the characters weren't acting so retarded. There were still some WTF moments (house blows up with team inside, team members are not blown to bits and come out of it virtually unscathed...*rolls eyes* ) but they were few and far between compared to the first season. We also learn more about the characters and they get rounded as out as real people we care about. Wish every threat the team faced wasn't an end-of-the-world scenario. That got a bit tiresome. And I quickly became sick of those goddamn Weevils. Enough with the fucking Weevils, FFS. But over all the 2nd season was much more satisfying and it wasn't a labor to watch.
Now I'm watching a third season miniseries. Goddamn shit's gettin' real Definitely the best episodes yet. Much more tightly scripted and with the bullshit nonsense of the earlier seasons conspicuously and refreshingly absent. Also, Jack, always the weakest character in the past, gets explored a little better. One thing that frustrated me previously was that here you've got a character that cannot die. That's pretty fucking amazing. HE CAN'T DIE. And yet we only ever saw him get shot. "What would happen to him if he got burned, got dismembered, got blown up?" I always thought. What should have been easily the most interesting character was always the most boring character because nothing was ever done with him.
But now he's gotten himself blown up. It's about time! And we also see a darker, or at least more complex, side of him than we've seen before in that it's revealed he's done some questionable things in the past. Very interesting. And much more satisfying. Actually very much looking forward to watching the concluding episodes of this.

[tattuchu]

Watching the Torchwood: Miracle Day mini-series. I thought it was going to suck, was fully prepared for it totally sucking. I mean, Torchwood goes to the U.S.? If Torchwood goes to the U.S., it's not fucking Torchwood anymore, right? What's the point of it? And a joint venture with the U.S. Starz network? What the fuck is Starz Network? Never fucking heard of it. Sounds like a joke.
And yet this is really rather well done. At least so far. Only half way through it just now.